With The Hakawati, Rabih Alameddine has given us an Arabian Nights for this century. Through Osama, we also enter the world of the contemporary Lebanese men and women whose stories tell a larger, heartbreaking tale of seemingly endless war, conflicted identity, and survival. Here are Abraham and Isaac Ishmael, father of the Arab tribes the beautiful Fatima Baybars, the slave prince who vanquished the Crusaders and a host of mischievous imps. As the protagonist sits by the bedside of his dying father, the reader is pulled into an otherworldly web of stories inspired by Arab. As the family gathers, stories begin to unfold: Osama's grandfather was a hakawati, or storyteller, and his bewitching tales are interwoven with classic stories of the Middle East. Rabih Alameddine discusses his new book, The Hakawati. In 2003, Osama al-Kharrat returns to Beirut after many years in America to stand vigil at his father's deathbed. What else can we ask the djinn of literature for?' Andrew Sean Greer, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Less The last part of the project is configured as a real Creative Residence in Polverigi of the young actors of the Palestinian National Theatre, in the beautiful setting of Villa Nappi. The Hakawati is both a snapshot of our current crisis, and a story for the ages. A period of intense work from the Marche to East Jerusalem to launch a message of dialogue, hope and peace with the young people of the Palestinian territories. No book this bewitching has ever felt so important no book this important has ever been so lovingly enchanted.

Urn:oclc:473178948 Republisher_date 20120828215015 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120824011851 Scanner .'Here it comes, the book of the year, on its own magic carpet. Hakawati is an Arabic word that Literally means ‘a storyteller’. Urn:lcp:hakawati00alam:epub:cebaad2f-0d32-4004-aebd-fc9586f86aaf Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier hakawati00alam Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5m91g020 Isbn 9780307266798Ġ307266796 Lccn 2007035917 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL10352516M Openlibrary_edition He can be an antidote to the danger of a single story. Urn:lcp:hakawati00alam:lcpdf:c79d8f93-9990-498e-b11b-76e31468c37f The hakawati is a reminder of the shared customs that used to unite communities, says Husseini. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:50:08 Bookplateleaf 0005 Boxid IA155001 Boxid_2 CH119701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.